BESTMIX® Recipe Management
Create and optimize pet food formulations while balancing nutrition, quality and cost.
Pet Food
Pet food software from formulation to finished product
Integrated software for multi-step formulation, quality and moisture control, helping you manage variability, stay within formulation targets and produce consistent, high-quality pet food batch after batch.
Products moving pet food formulation and production forward
BESTMIX® Quality Control
Turn quality data into better formulation decisions and more consistent pet food.
BESTMIX® Insights
A predictive model built on your production data. Proven in production, run as a proof of concept on your line.
BESTMIX® SpecTrack
Keep supplier data, ingredient specifications, compliance and traceability connected in one place.
BESTMIX® PROCISION
Use real-time batch data to manage raw material variability and formulate closer to target.
BESTMIX® ERP Suite
Connect purchasing, formulation, production, quality and sales in one integrated platform, giving pet food producers control across their operations.
BESTMIX® Identification
Use Near-Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to verify that incoming ingredients match your specifications.
BESTMIX® Customer Hub
A powerful add-on to BESTMIX® ERP Suite, designed for all your e-business processes
BESTMIX helps pet food manufacturers
Anticipate market shifts before they hit your margins
Ingredient costs, availability and quality can vary from batch to batch. BESTMIX® brings formulation, forecasting and cost analysis into one platform. Respond to changes in raw material quality and availability, evaluate their impact on cost, and make informed decisions to keep production on track.
Master moisture control for consistent, shelf-stable products
Moisture variability can affect product consistency, nutritional targets and production efficiency. BESTMIX® helps you calculate drying effects during formulation, at both ingredient and recipe level. Connect formulation with quality data to better manage moisture variability and make decisions based on what is actually happening in production. The result: more consistent pet food, precise nutrient balance, less waste and better control from batch to batch.
Predictive AI, built on your production data
Moisture control keeps kibble stable, extends shelf life, and protects palatability. BESTMIX works with pet food producers to build predictive models on their own production data, tuned to their specific lines. The model learns from your history to predict finished moisture and recommend the settings that hold product on target, so quality depends less on who is on shift.
Because it is built on your data, it starts as a proof of concept on one line, with no risk to live production. Proven in aquafeed extrusion, and extending to pet food kibble.
Launch new products fast without the complexity
Easily manage multiple brands from a shared core recipe by layering ingredients, swapping additives, and fine-tuning nutritional profiles for each variant, while maintaining full traceability. Stay compliant with market and labeling requirements and give every team clear visibility into recipe changes and final versions.
Product knowledge, whenever your team needs it
New to BESTMIX or years in, BESTY gets your team to the answer faster. Ask a question and get a direct response, grounded in the current BESTMIX® documentation, no digging through manuals, no waiting for someone who happens to know where to look. Less time searching means more time getting the job done.
Your product doesn't get made in a single step. Your formulation software shouldn’t act like it is.
BESTMIX models the difference between the meat mix step, the extrusion step and the coating step, not just the finished product. Moisture and nutrient profiles change at each processing stage, and the system accounts for that at every level.
Effective moisture management is crucial, as it ensures kibble stability, extends shelf life, and minimizes nutrient loss, ultimately enhancing palatability. At BESTMIX, we understand the importance of this and work closely with our customers to design and implement AI-based predictive models that act as an advanced advisory tool for moisture management.
Through these AI projects, we collaborate with our customers to research and establish models tailored to their unique production environments. These models enable proactive adjustments during production, reducing rework and ensuring consistent product quality. By monitoring moisture content in real-time throughout the extrusion process, our solution allows for immediate corrective actions based on live data. This level of precision and efficiency marks a significant advancement over traditional methods. If you're interested in partnering with us to elevate your production capabilities through AI, feel free to reach out!
The constant struggle to maintain high product standards while dealing with inconsistent raw material quality can be overwhelming, especially with all the regulations to follow. Balancing cost-effectiveness with the demand for high-quality products is no small feat. Traditional methods often lead to hefty safety margins, which can drive up costs and eat into your profits.
BESTMIX doesn’t rely on “typical” or average raw material analyses. Instead, it optimizes according to the actual price and quality of individual raw material batches. You meet your target specifications without large safety margins and with lower raw material costs. All required batch information can be imported automatically from your ERP or MES system through our integration capabilities.
Imagine receiving an alert from the software indicating a fluctuation in the protein content of a recent batch. In BESTMIX, you can review relevant data, including price trends and forecasted amounts, enabling you to make informed decisions about future purchases.
Moreover, if a batch does not meet expected quality standards, discounts can be automatically calculated for suppliers. This not only protects your bottom line but also encourages suppliers to maintain high standards.
Raw materials can vary greatly in quality depending on origin, supplier and other factors. For example, a batch of fresh beef offal can vary significantly in nutritional profile based on supplier, geographic origin, livestock diet and processing methods. This variability requires agility and insight to keep formulations on target.
With real-time data at your fingertips, you’re prepared to adapt quickly. By regularly sampling and analyzing the nutrient content of incoming ingredients, you build a rich database of raw material quality over time. When it is time to incorporate these materials into production, BESTMIX makes it easy to update your ingredient matrix using your own gathered data. This helps scientists and formulators work with current, accurate data and respond to ingredient variability with confidence.
When ingredient prices change, evaluating the impact across hundreds of formulations can take significant time. Optimizing formulas one at a time becomes increasingly difficult as your portfolio grows, and the effort involved can mean cost-saving opportunities are left unrealized.
BESTMIX optimizes the entire portfolio simultaneously. Shared ingredient constraints are respected across every plant. Updated BOMs, regenerated labels and a consolidated purchase plan route to ERP in one step. No manual re-entry.
FAQ's
From formulation to datasheet takes seconds. BESTMIX automatically generates datasheets, labels, feeding guidelines, and specifications using customizable templates, streamlining your documentation process.
Yes, in two ways. BESTY, our knowledge assistant, is live and answers questions from BESTMIX documentation. And we build predictive models on a producer's own production data to help hold finished moisture and quality on target. The predictive work is delivered as a proof of concept on your line, not a switch-on feature. It is proven in aquafeed extrusion and extending to pet food.
The answer depends on the recipe and the scope of the change. The biggest time savings come from everything that happens around the formulation itself. When a recipe changes, BESTMIX automatically updates specifications, labels, compliance checks, and ERP outputs, eliminating manual handoffs and duplicate work.
For co-manufacturers, this means faster turnaround on customer quote requests. R&D teams handling multiple quote requests each month can compress work that traditionally takes days into hours by removing manual specification updates, label revisions, compliance checks, and ERP updates.
The best way to evaluate the impact is to model one of your own recipes during a BESTMIX demo and compare the workflow with your current process.
Yes. BESTMIX supports multi-step formulation within a single recipe. You can model meat preparation, extrusion, coating, slurry preparation, drying, and other production stages, each with its own constraints and optimization settings.
A consolidated view rolls up ingredients and nutrients across every step, while allowing you to optimize individual process stages independently. Ingredients can be moved between steps as processes evolve, and constraints can be managed at both step and recipe level.
For pet food manufacturers, this is especially valuable because rehydration, extrusion, coatings, and inclusions often occur at different stages of production. Instead of only seeing the finished product, you can identify exactly where issues such as moisture variation, nutrient losses, or cost changes originate within the process.
Yes. BESTMIX supports precision formulation using lot-specific ingredient data from NIR systems and laboratory analyses. Before each production run, the optimizer can formulate against the actual composition of the ingredients currently available rather than historical averages.
This helps manufacturers maintain nutritional targets, reduce over-formulation, improve consistency, and control ingredient costs. It's especially valuable for fresh and wet pet food, where raw material composition can vary significantly from lot to lot.
By formulating with real ingredient data instead of average values, teams can make better use of available raw materials while consistently meeting product specifications.
AAFCO nutrient profiles are included in the BESTMIX pet food database. When you select a life stage, such as adult maintenance or growth, the corresponding nutrient requirements and parameters are loaded automatically.
You can apply AAFCO values as active optimization constraints or use them as reference targets during formulation. BESTMIX also allows you to combine AAFCO requirements with your own internal nutritional standards and specifications.
Yes. BESTMIX is multilingual by design. Ingredient declarations, feeding instructions, product information, and other label and specification content can be maintained in multiple languages and reused across products.
When a recipe changes, all configured language versions are automatically updated from the same source. This eliminates the need to manually re-translate specifications and labels, helping prevent inconsistencies between markets and reducing the risk of version drift across product portfolios.
This is especially valuable for manufacturers serving multiple regions, where product documentation must be maintained in different languages while remaining accurate and consistent.
Yes. BESTMIX connects through a public REST API to common ERP, LIMS/NIR lab systems, MES and production systems, PLM, LCA tools such as Opteinics and Sustell, and external label design systems.
Integrations help keep formulation, ingredient, cost, and quality data synchronized across your digital landscape, reducing manual data entry and improving data consistency throughout your operation.. Standard JSON and XML export formats are available, and integrations can be adapted to systems that require a different schema.
Yes. BESTMIX supports portfolio optimization across all formulas. Update ingredient prices once, and the system can reoptimize every formula in your portfolio at the same time while staying within approved ingredient ranges.
A single run provides updated costs across the portfolio, updated bills of materials, a consolidated ingredient consumption forecast, and a purchase plan by ingredient and plant. Results can be transferred to your ERP in one step, helping teams respond quickly to changing market conditions without manually updating formulas one by one.
BESTMIX implementations are staged according to the size and complexity of your business, from single-site deployments to global multi-site rollouts.
To minimize risk, customers typically run BESTMIX in parallel with existing systems before go-live, allowing teams to validate results while production continues uninterrupted. Multi-site deployments often begin with a pilot site before expanding to additional locations, while global rollouts are delivered in phases using a centralized configuration approach.
Implementation includes system setup, recipe migration, training, and integration support, with deployment timelines tailored to the scope of the project.
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